We have seen Justin Schaffer staying up all night not only to study for an AP Latin exam but also to finish a script to an unsanctioned dramatic production that did honor to the faculty and to the school. (I am told he even fit in some swing dancing and a couple of rugby games that same night.)

All of which makes Justin Schaffer's [Facebook] webpage extra-ordinary and even instructive. By clicking here, you can see Justin's webpage for yourself and wonder what sort of traditional family values were taught in Bob Schaffer's home.

Here are some questions that jumped out at me, for example: Is promoting slavery a traditional family value?

Is it a traditional family value to argue that democracy is bad, and to belong to a group saying so in its title – not to mention belonging to a group that calls itself "Pole Dancers for Jesus"? What about a group called "Affirmative Action Sucks"? Or "Bitch, please... I'm from Colorado"?

Is it a traditional family value to twist Biblical scripture to fit a political agenda? Is it a traditional family value to celebrate "diversity" by posting a picture of 18 kinds of handguns above the rainbow-colored word "diversity"? And is it a traditional family value to depict Jesus, in a televangelist suit and wearing a dollar-sign lapel pin, holding an Uzi against a Confederate flag background, and to ask, "What would Republican Jesus do?"

And is it a traditional family value in the Schaffer home to depict Barack Obama as Osama bin Laden, seven years after bin Laden's deadly attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, during which time the present president has said loudly and clearly from the James S. Brady Briefing Room of the White House, "I truly am not that concerned about [bin Laden]?"

And that brief list of questions ignores the other offensive references depicted on the younger, but still adult, Schaffer's webpage: the references to women as "slutty," the illustration of fecal matter with halos, the suggestion that drivers can earn "1,000 points" for hitting "slow children" on a road sign.

I don't know if I'd put my thoughts exactly this way, but one person called "Republican 36" commenting on the younger Schaffer's work here wrote,

If anything it shows a young man who was raised in a political family who has a callous and repugnant attitude toward slavery. After four hundred years of slavery, Jim Crowe laws and racist attitudes you would think he would have the intelligence, and training at home, not to post something like this, especially when his father is running for a high profile public office. Apparently, he is proud of his attitudes, including the antithesis of the words in the Declaration of Independence that states "all men are created equal."

We should not deceive ourselves because this man is only 20 years old. This is another example of the dark underbelly of the Republican-religious right and their drive to make ugly, racist values part of the mainstream again.